So who’s going to replace her? Well that is an unfair question, you can’t replace an icon as they are unique by their nature. In that case, who will succeed her? Again I don’t think that’s really valid as the world has changed from one where amateur photographers committed a models image to rolls of film to one where we all have access to digital recording media and can transmit an image around the world from a mobile device around the world in seconds.

Personally I think that there will be no more icons like Bettie. Yes there will be names, faces, images but nobody truly iconic.

All media is too ephemeral. Stars have a short window of opportunity where their perceived attractiveness and therefore commercial worth is at its zenith. Then, while the images of them will circulate forever on the Internet the performer/model is consigned to the scrap heap.